If I know my Carolina pols — and I think I do — at least a few are wondering why cities in other states got the full dirty bomb goose-hunt treatment that we missed. Didn’t Charlotte host a bowl game? Doesn’t the Triangle host big outdoor gaitherings? Don’t we count too? Please, please tell us what to do to get on the short list of Important Cities!

Me, I’m glad to sit this one out, secure in the knowledge that a mad-security scramble is just one pack-ratting homeless guy away.